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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

We closed the bed & breakfast down this Sunday, two months earlier than normal, as we are due to have our 2nd baby in the next week or so. Needless to say things have been fairly hectic and I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that things will get even more hectic within the next few days and indeed weeks!! Hence the lull in blog posts! Pregnancy coupled with running a B&B, all whilst running after a toddler, has left little time for new recipes for the blog. So here today I am taking advantage of the 'rest' time I have allowed for myself and decided it was time to try out the red quinoa that has been sitting in the cupboard for the last month!

With the pregnancy I did relax the dieting a bit, and was in full on carb mode! But now that the end is in sight I've started to think about dishes for my post baby diet, when I will be tryng to shift the odd pound or 50 than I have gained! (I rarely said NO to leftover B&B baking treats). For this reason this dish is an extremely healthy salad which can be used as either a side or bulked up with roast chicken for a substantial low fat, low carb, high protein meal.

Ingredients

100g Red Quinoa (Cooked according to packet instructions)

4 Spring Onions, diced

3-4 florets of broccoli, chopped small

1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cubed

2 tsp of garam masala powder

1 tsp of olive oil

Method

Boil the broccoli for 3-4 minutes, then submerge in cold water (to retain the bright green colour). This short method ensures that the min. amount of nutrients are lost in the cooking process.

Boil the sweet potato cubes in cold water for 7-8 minutes. Drain well.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Spread the sweet potato cubes out onto a baking tray, drizzle over the olive oil and also the garam masala powder.

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My name is Serena and i'm a self confessed food addict!! I'm a wife, a mom to a young toddler, and a bed and breakfast owner in Killarney in South West Ireland. I get a kick out of cooking for loved ones and in my job I get to cook for different people from all over the world on a daily basis. I am constantly experimenting and my guilty pleasure is reading cook books in bed.
I'm quite health and low fat conscious most of the time. I do believe if you are healthy 80% of the time, the rest of the time is reserved for treats. Afterall life is too short not to enjoy cake! This is reflected in my recipes which are mostly low fat, but there are a few naughty tasty recipes also.
I was a fussy eater as a young lass, using ketchup to disguise the taste of food, still today I use ketchup like its going out of fashion, though always just in the privacy of my own home.I promise to leave the ketchup at home in these recipes :)